Yeongju Samga-dong Stone Flagpole Supports

A stone flagpole support pair of this kind is set up at the entrance to a Buddhist temple; when the temple held an event or ceremony, a banner known as a dang was hung there. The long pole from which the banner hung is called a danggan, and the two stone pillars that support it on either side are together called a dangganjiju. The banner itself is usually gone and the pole rarely survives, so that in most cases only the two pillars remain. This dangganjiju stands on raised ground to the left of the hill leading up to Birosa Temple. The inner faces of the two pillars, which face one another, are flat, with square grooves cut at the top and in the middle to hold the flagpole in place. The outer faces have been broadly chamfered at the bottom and at part of the top to create a curved contour, and the front and back each carry a raised band running around the outer edge, with a single additional vertical line set within it. The tops of the pillars are rounded off in two curving tiers running from the inner to the outer edge. Between the pillars survives the base stone for the flagpole, its upper surface pierced with a hole into which the pole was once set. Judging from its scale and decorative technique, this dangganjiju appears to date from the Unified Silla period, contemporary with the founding of Birosa Temple. The many roof-tile fragments found in the surrounding fields provide important evidence confirming the original scale of the old temple.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산